Grace Period, Redemption Period, Pending Delete: A Domain’s Death Spiral

A domain doesn't go from "yours" to "available to the public" the moment its expiration date passes. It moves through a defined sequence of increasingly restrictive stages, each with different costs and different odds of recovery, and understanding exactly where…

The Real Cost of Letting a Domain Expire by Accident

An accidentally expired domain is one of those failures that seems minor right up until it isn't — a small administrative oversight, an expired credit card, an email filtered to spam, that can cascade into consequences wildly disproportionate to the…